#i think it paid off >:3
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“i won't leave you." with russpa
you know what. i've had an idea... cardverse, anyone? 👀
Treachery
The council is dismissed. Plans have been established, orders have been given, and when the sun rises tomorrow, horses and soldiers shall ride off in the direction of Spades.
It is too late to withdraw their declaration now.
As the room empties of ministers and miscreants, only two figures eventually remain. One sits in his chair at the head of the table, exhausted from the talks; the other has lurked in the shadows for the entire council gathering and only now, as their privacy becomes concrete, does he move away from the doors he has guarded to stand at the other’s side.
One is Ivan, King of Clubs. The other is Antonio, Ace of Diamonds—a long way from home, yet precisely where he needs to be.
“So,” the Ace begins, his hand settling on the back of Ivan’s chair, “how do you feel that went?”
The other gives a light scoff. “As well as any such gathering can go.”
“But you still believe that this is the right thing to do?”
“I do.”
“Good. That’s good,” Antonio determines with a smile that imbues him with a sense of pride and relief.
He moves his hand to Ivan’s shoulder, wanting to share such feelings with him. In turn, Ivan’s hand drifts up and gently settles down on top of Antonio’s, which makes the Ace only happier. To think, it was only a year ago that they first stood in this room alone together—that he and Ivan started to get to know each other beyond their official titles…
Antonio shouldn’t be there. Not really. Francis believes he is in Clubs to oversee talks so that he can return to Diamonds with the information, the decisions, and the insight that will help their own kingdom decide whether neutrality or belligerence is best. In truth, however, he is there for Ivan—to make sure Ivan goes ahead, that Clubs’ plans are fully fleshed out, and to provide strategic, moral, and more… personal support to the king.
(The rest of the Clubs royals were dismissed with the council. Similarly to Francis, they believe he is there to help them, to support them, and to potentially convince Diamonds to join their effort. Maybe he still will. Or, maybe he won’t…)
He brushes the back of his fingers against the other’s cold cheek. “I have faith that this will work,” Antonio remarks, fingers becoming a hand when Ivan starts to lean into the touch (how can he resist?). “Spades have much to answer for. If this is what it takes for them to finally see the damage they have done and the bridges they have burnt, then so be it.”
Ivan hums. He lifts Antonio’s hand from his face and brings it in front of him, pressing a kiss to his knuckles. The tenderness used to surprise him—it is so unexpected of a man so outwardly intimidating as Ivan—but now, he relishes in it, adores it, misses it when he is away.
“It is a shame,” the king says, “that you will have to go tomorrow. If it weren’t for this war, I would invite you to stay for longer than planned.”
“Well,” Antonio replies, taking up residence on the other’s broad lap, “I don’t have to go, I suppose…”
Ivan smiles, feeble, unsure, though he still holds Antonio, who duly rests his arm around the other’s shoulders. He says, “But you do. Your king is waiting for you; you have a duty to him and to your kingdom to return,” with a solemnity about him.
“I won’t leave you,” Antonio tells him, however. “Not if you do not want me to.”
“You will hardly stay if I have to go to war.”
“Your men will go to war. You will stay here, at least until a chance at victory appears,” the Ace insists. “Until then, we cannot risk our most important piece. If they got their hands on you so soon, it would… It would be catastrophic.”
Yet, Ivan does not worry about himself. He does not worry about what would become of himself if he were to fall into enemy hands. Rather, his smile holds, and with his fingertips he finds Antonio’s face—finds the scar that strikes down across his eye and into his cheek—which becomes the subject of his affection.
No one else is allowed to touch his face, at risk of losing their hand. But when Ivan does it, Antonio's hatred dies, and in its place is born a sort of peace. That is, a peace that interferes with his desire for revenge, yet one that… makes living easier. It is such a rare, curious feeling.
"Whatever happens," Ivan goes on to say, "I will make sure that Spades pay for what they did to you and your home. As you said, they have much to answer for, and I will pry those answers from them with my own bare hands if I must."
The sentiment is warming. It is as though he has not a king but a knight in his grasp, a fighter willing to do anything for him, even at the expense of his own life. Antonio has to make use of that while he can; when Clubs goes to war tomorrow, Diamonds will not follow. He needs Ivan. He needs Ivan to fight for him and his dignity.
But, if Ivan should do the unthinkable and fail him, then his use will unfortunately expire, and Antonio will have to explore other his options.
Francis has been easy enough to persuade to his whims in the past. As for Ludwig, well… Antonio is not one to back down from a challenge. He always finds a way in the end.
[ final wordcount, 953 words! ]
#hetalia#helia writes#hws russia#hws spain#russpa#i craved more toni being a naughty naughty boy#i think it paid off >:3#also apologies for typos i only read it once before posting haha yolo ✌️😜#(writing that actually. hurt.)#(but im not fixing it now!)
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Damn guys this new anime's opening is fire. U should all check it out i think. The mc is a bit of a maniac but the series seems pretty cool so far /SILLY
#dddaily4sherin#day 328 >:D#smallishbeans#impulsesv#skizzleman#geminitay#grian#goodtimeswithscar#mumbo jumbo#hermitcraft#hermitblr#my art#NOT MAKING AN ANIMATIC I WILL DIE. (and im pretty sure ten thousand other ppl are doing that already LOL)#u guys can just have the cool still frames :3#i was kinda regretting doing this halfway through ngl but I think the results paid off HAJKEHAJHEHEE#now. if this looks convincing. send it to someone to fool them and make them watch hermitcraft real /SILLY#the inspo is mainly jjk bc i really like how they do lighting but alas i couldn't do much of that here </3
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Columbo and the Knight (1984)
put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.
Autism W!
#columbo#knight rider#art#michael knight#kitt#comic#highlight reel#crossover#telebeast#there are two small easter eggs here. can you find them. they were somehow not Entirely lost when i resized these for the public#this is what i mean when i say I Draw And It's Everyone Else's Problem. look at my INCREDIBLY niche crossover comic boy#if the knight rider fandom has like 12 people in it. how many of y'all have seen columbo#this comic is for like 4 people and me and phoenix are already two of them#niche is my specialty lets be real. weird niche obscure shit and ships nobody's paid attention to yet#not to suggest this is ship art. columbo has his wife and michael has his car lmfao#stylizing real people is EXTREMELY hard btw sorry for when they get off model. its partly a 'better imperfect than never finished' situatio#cant tell you how much i redrew some of these panels. weeps#this took me 2 weeks but i think i thumbnailed it all in may and the ideas been rollin around in my head since march#is anybody good at editing. please edit michael and columbo into an image together like its a screenshot. NOT generated. edited.#it would be so cool#ive drawn columbo a lot but i haven't drawn a lot of michaels. i was learning things about his outfit AS I WAS DOING THE DAMN#COLORS ON THIS. all the lines done. it was too late to change anything. i did all the lines and colored page by page#i realized my mistakes on like page 3. 1 and 2 were already done. it was Too Late.#imagine it though. them working a case together. switching between the more serious tone of columbo vs the goofier#action antics of michael and kitt. columbo being so impressed by Modern Technology. there's more i could say but phoenix may write#more of this crossover and i don't want to spoil it :'3#there's opportunity here though i swear. there's gold to be dug.#i like how kitt gets shading but columbo's junker peugeot doesn't. kitt looked wrong without any. columbo's car is matte and dirty#i also applied effects to this to make it look a little film-grainy and VHS like. some CRT TV vibes#the only question left is. did they put knight rider into columbo; or columbo into knight rider 🤔
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Finally… after 2-3 months on working on this…
it’s finally done!!! I can finally sleep in peace now-
To give context: Mickey went to the Realm of Darkness to search for Oswald (cause he figured out he was still alive and such, don’t know how). And later he found him, but not the same brother as he knew before… (and then they proceeded to have a 3 and a half minute musical because it’s what every Disney characters do sjfjsjdk-)
Anyways enjoy! This was really fun, yet challenging project to do considering this is my first animatic haha! ☀️✨
(Animatic inspired by Frootoon on YouTube btw! Just wanna give credit is all)
#my art#art#disney#kingdom hearts#kingdom hearts 3#my animatic#mickey mouse#oswald the lucky rabbit#king mickey#anti-Oswald AU?#eh I’ll add it why not#holy cheesewheels how the heck did I do this???-#I guess all this really did paid off haha!#even tho there were some mistakes#but I’m not gonna get too picky on it#anyway let me know what y’all think!#rapunzels tangled adventure#tangled the series
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Robbing the Royal Treasury
↳ Esteban in "King of the Carnaval" vs. Elena in "Royal Treasury Escape Room" (Scepter Training with Zuzo)
#elena of avalor#elena castillo flores#esteban flores#chancellor esteban#i've been thinking about this parallel ever since i watched this short#surprisingly there aren't as many direct parallels as you might think#but that's cause “something i would never do” is like twice the runtime of the short#and esteban is so both much more efficient and much more extra than elena#and elena only has to steal one thing as opposed to all the things#and she does so without having an existential crisis the way her cousin did#honestly elena may have hated ballet but it clearly paid off cause she's very graceful in this#not as graceful as esteban but still elena did some lovely chainé turns to avoid the purple smoke#of course it doesn't last and she makes a big old mess#but still elena did a better job than i remembered and she should be recognized for that#ngl i think a lot about the fact that the characters who have canonically stolen elena's mother's crown from the treasury are:#1. esteban ; 2. elena; 3. shuriki; 4. flo (in a different short)#'one of these things is not like the others; one of these things doesn't belong. can you tell which thing is not like the others?'#and flo had the easiest time of it (but left the biggest mess)#mygifs#disneyedit#eoaedit
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Taliesin for the sake of sanity I'm gonna have to ask you to NEVER LET ASHTON DO THAT AGAIN
Except the kissing Fearne part, more of that!
#critical role#bells hells#ashton greymoore#fearne calloway#taliesin jaffe#ashley johnson#sometimes warnings are there for a reason!#visibly shaking#frothing panicking unable to think#but yay Callowmoore#callowmoore#y'know after Fearne forgives him for almost dying#you regret what you don't take remember Ashley?#but now Ash is both Emperor and Empress so I need some magmatic power buffs going now since the gambit (somehow) paid off#rockwild#Taliesin you LITERAL PUNK#seeing discourse in the tag though I don't get; Fearne didn't want it so Ash took it that's all there is#the Hells are gonna be so mad but Ashton was not gonna let anyone die for them because they are what they're fighting for#hoof in the face is deserved though 'I love you so much but I hate you right now' style#3 weeks and several mental scenarios did not prepare me for that#ashton x fearne#fearne x ashton#cr spoilers#now commence a full week of more mental scenarios that won't prepare me but will at least keep me somewhat composed
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🥳🎉
August isn't over yet, and I just reached my third (and last) word count goal for this month. As I had hoped, the characters have been a bit more forthcoming and the scenes have been a bit easier to write.
I would love to say I'm halfway there, but honestly? The outline went up in flames 10 chapters ago. I don't know exactly where I am going now. All I know is there will be blood 🥰
The thing is, this is the first time I have not been rereading what I wrote. Except for when I needed a detail (now where did I cut her? 🤔) I have not looked back once I finished a chapter. It's one of the reasons* I don't want to do tag games with this WIP yet.
I have no doubt that the early chapters will need a bit more editing to get in line with how the characters turned out, but I might just see this through to the end and not look back until the first draft is done. I hope this will be the case by the end of the year.
In other news, I decided that at 50k, if I still like the idea I had a few weeks back, i would give it a (temporary?) title, so here it is:
All of our Lives
#salad-txt#wip: aool#*the other reason is that I'm a coward about two of the main aspects in this WIP so far (:#I didn't think I would be able to pull this off but it's been 4 months and I haven't reread the earlier chapters yet so#I didn't want the first part to be so long because I wanted some balance between the parts#and I sure as fuck hope part 2 won't be another 50k because uhhhh there has to be a small part 3 as well and 100k TOTAL sounds nice#but you know what fuck it#not like I'm getting published... or paid... or readers#if it so happens to be 50k of suffering and dragging their asses to safety I'm not gonna complain about it#like what am i supposed to do cut out one of the various panic attacks? no thank you
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I haz ask... HOW THE QUACK ARE UR LINE'S SO PERFECT- SO RELAXED???!? I have never seen a stiff drawing from you, and everything looks so good.. I just Wana nibble on it! ToT
oh that! that means a Bunch <3 thank you so much <3<3
#ive always thought my art was too stiff & the lines too severe#when i did traditional i left Grooves in the paper from how hard i was pressing#so its good to know that my efforts in Relaxing My Grip have paid off!#im a little emotional now ngl!#a few days ago a certain someone described my art as 'kind' which took me the fuck out once i registered it#kind... relaxed... i never thought id get to this point!#the euphoria of going from 'constantly rigid' to 'never seen a stiff drawing from me'. im healed <3#oh if younger me could see us now!#rambles from the bog#as for How... yeah i just relax lmao#i dont press too hard and i use longer brushstrokes instead of a bunch of small ones. swoopy#honestly i think my custom brush does half the work...#i doubt my art would be half as gentle Without it!
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{i am the caretaker of souls} Just a heads up, my computer is having some serious issues and I need to take some time to try to fix it or determine if I need to buy another one. It's only a little over a year old, which is infuriating, but it's complaining of registry errors and memory access failures, it won't run any games or process graphically intensive websites (like this one) very well, and after using it for only a couple hours, it grinds almost to a halt and becomes damn near unusable. With my job entirely online and starting up on Sept. 3rd, this is so not okay. I need to take care of this ASAP.
I'm pretty good with computers, but my dad is better. He's got 50+ years experience with working with them. I'm going to hand my computer off to him in an hour and he'll take the night to see if it's saveable. I've done some writing in advance, knowing I wasn't going to have my computer for most of the night but I have no idea when I might be getting my computer back from him tonight. If it's early enough that I can post what I've already done and work on even more, then that's what I'll do. If not, then I'll just post/write for this blog tomorrow instead.
I just wanted to let everyone know what was going on, in case I'm not on at all tonight. So if it's quiet here tonight because I got my computer back from him way too late and just went to bed, heh, then you can expect me to be here tomorrow instead.
Thanks for your patience! =)
#{ i am the caretaker of souls } ᵒᵒᶜ#{i can't believe it's doing this to me}#{this computer honestly has pissed me off so much}#{it's supposed to be a gaming computer but from day 1 it has not been able to even run minecraft properly}#{and now at about a year old it's doing things that computers usually do when they're 3 years old}#{i paid a lot for it too thinking i'd have it for a long time so i'm... livid}#{fingers crossed it can be fixed and i don't have to buy a separate laptop for work}
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as a media psychology researcher 85% of my job is figuring out the most horrifically academic way to say "you idiots wouldn't last a day on tumblr"
#my job really is turning band lore into observations that are abstract enough that we can do math about it#ADT my beloathed </3#time for me to rant now#you have no idea how frustrating it is for the general consensus in your field of research to be so completely off-base#sometimes the way I have to talk to get other researchers to listen to me makes me feel like I'm a traitor to my own beliefs#like yes. in a -very very basic- sense we do tend to like nice people who do good things and dislike mean people who do bad things#there are traceable social-evolutionary reasons for that#but its SOOOOOOOOOO reductive. especially when it comes to fiction (and it's not even limited to that!)#my entire dissertation is probably going to sum up like 'hey uhhh maybe sometimes people like characters because they're INTERESTING'#(cue 'what do you mean 'interesting'?')#and you'd think that's so fucking obvious (it is) but it will take me literal non-metaporical -years- of research to get that point across#when am I ever going to get further down my hit list. I also need to set aside time to destroy the concept of moral purity#and don't even get me STARTED on character identification. the measures for parasocial shit are so broken we might as well just start over#don't get me wrong I love my job. I get paid your hard earned tax dollars to do gay science#but sometimes I want to scream
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you know someday i'm gonna feel so good when i have my student loans paid off
that ain't gonna be soon, trust me, but i think about it
#i've been saving so much for it that i paid off over like $2k in the last 2 or 3 months#it's just thinking about how the amount of interest goes off that drives me literally crazy#and my monthly amount i owe is like just under $120#which to some people as a regular bill is more manageable than others. but as i have an irregular income#as a substitute teacher it's something that gives me a LOT of stress.#which is another reason i've been overpaying. in case something happens/i can't get a lot of work#it defers the next due date.#that way it's not urgent but yet i still *feel* it all the time#debt is a crazy kind of thing#and to think that my loans are from COMMUNITY college. two years. publicly owned#when i start taking classes again soon. i currently have enough saved that if i take like ONE class#i can pay out of pocket. and i think im only gonna take one class to start anyway#which will also help with the deferred payments#see i just fucking hate having to think practically about money like this#tales from diana#idk how ppl leave high school and go straight to live in a dorm room at a private university for four straight years#and rack up tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.#first of all that lifestyle was not accessible for me to begin with. even when paying it was such an abstract put-it-off thought#as it is for so many 18-year-olds who are told not to worry about where they apply.#but i had under $12k to repay when the student loan debt was unfrozen last fall#and it's been weighing on me soooo heavily since then. i think about it every damn day#it's like the money i make isn't even mine. it goes straight to mohela and food#keep in mind i also live w my parents & am on their health insurance so someday there'll be moooore bills!!!!
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all the other akis I got today :) (plus some extras)
and I wanted to show some closeups... the chainsaw man exhibition stand because it's one of my favorite stands of him now, and chibigurumi aki's outfit lolol
#I feel so spoiled with aki things today#you.. do not wanna know how much I paid for the tiny aki bean plushies#I got totally scammed I thought they'd be way larger#I think I'll put both the usagi ringo keychain and the easy revenge keychain on my itabag!#next day I have off I'll redo my whole itabag probably#I have a lot more things to put inside and I want to reorganize the keychains#I think I'll need to get a new keychain wall grate soon......#akis akis akis my heart is so happy#aki <3
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this oikawa fic certainly is not my best work BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ONCE AGAIN SAY i have been working six days in a row my brain is so backed up rn 😭😭😭😭 i'm sorry
#I WILL NEVER STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT WORK I'M SORRY#i hate adulting!!!#i will love it when i get paid#BUT FOR NOW??#KILL ME NOW#AND i get one day off before i work again#i don't think i've ever had to edit something so much in my life rip#ness' brainvomit <3
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Hello, glad your finals seem to have finished favorably.
I hate to bother you, but you seemed to enjoy my Arknights Texas/Sora/Bison fanfic, and my 20th chapter is ready to drop tomorrow on AO3.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/53972935
No response necessary! If you prefer, you can leave this Ask in your inbox as a reminder for later. Or never.
I won't reach out again unless you say that's cool with you.
I've already gotten some great critical feedback there, and I never mind more if you have any.
Hello there! I am glad to see you doing well! Thank you so much! I busted my ass off studying this year and it paid off super well. Please don't hesitate to pester me about this at all, really! I don't mind at all, it's just that my job is taking all of my free time and I tend to forget things.
But my, 20 chapters already?! Good on you, in all honesty. I am so happy to hear you've been getting positive and critical feedback, AO3 readers are a blessing. (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
And while I can't promise you to read everything right this moment, I will post this ask for everyone that follows me to check your stuff, so please, give them a look everyone! This sweet fish writes wonderfully. I'm cheering you on, even if it doesn't seem like it! Keep up the work, you are doing great and I can't wait to see your work evolve more as time goes by! <3
#asks#work is kicking my ass but I think I'll be free soon enough cause I have so much stuff to do gosh aaaaa#being an honor student is tiring lmao now I gotta be an honorable worker#I wanna write fish p*rn honestly pfft jk UNLESS#you are gonna go far my friend#hard work is always paid off <3
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genuine question does anyone know what to do when you feel like a nervous breakdown is coming? like is there a solid reliable way to stop it or at least prevent it from getting really bad
#dw I'm okay at the moment... I think#distracting myself by making a playlist lol#but I had one earlier this week & I'm still kind of scared from it#literally couldn't move or talk or do anything for the whole day#like my phone ran out of charge early on & if you'd paid me a hundred dollars I wouldn't have been able to go charge it#I know this is a regular occurrence for some ppl ofc (much love if that's you <3) but I'm not at all used to this so it's a bit scary#it's late. I want to go to sleep. I've been missing out on sleep all week#but I'm literally up worrying that I'll have another messed up nightmare & it'll start off another one of these things ugh#probably gonna delete this in the morning but for now would happily take advice <3
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Whatever happened to you getting another cat??
I decided to do this thing called self care instead. In all seriousness I really have my hands full right now. Between Arthur’s peeing and the lovebirds love for flinging food and paper everywhere I feel like I’m constantly cleaning. I’m also trying to take saving money super seriously right now so I’m trying to pick up extra hours at my part time job.
I’m not actively looking for another cat, but I also am who I am. If some poor, dying cat came into the clinic tmrw and needed a home I’d more than likely end up with another cat. You feel me?
#my home is paid off in 3 and a half years but I’m trying to see if I can pay it off even before then#and then start thinking abt college 😟 scary#ask
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